Group items tagged

Facing the Future is a nonprofit leader whose mission is to create tools for educators that equip and motivate students to develop critical thinking skills, build global awareness and engage in positive solutions for a sustainable future.

Detailed post explaining what a PLN is and giving detailed descriptions on how to grow one.

An interesting website, but also incorporating active citizenship within our ICT saturated world. Very encouraging, and positive!

Project funded by the Australian government to "support Australian schools, families and communities build sustainable, collaborative, productive relationships"

This is a website I came across on Terry Rees blog page http://terryrees.edublogs.org/ . She says one of the most important things for her is to develop a sustainable and quality Personal Learning Network (PLN) with other professionals with which she can share ideas, experiences, thoughts, and seek advice. If you are in need of resources and advice for starting a PLN this may help. Thanks Terry for putting me on to it. Hopefully others will find it useful too.

ACARA's implementation of the Australian Curriculum will enable students an equal and enriching education throughout the nation. As a future educator and studying for the past 4 years education, it is enlightening to know that in the near future, Australia as a nation will have one type of education for all states. The Australian Curriculum will enable teachers to travel throughout Australia, be able to provide students with a consistent learning experience, and will endeavor to advance and push students in a positive direction. I am all for the Australian Curriculum and am excited to know that this is the way that education is heading. The equality of the Australian Curriculum not only for educators as well as students, but for parents, knowing that their children will benefit from equal learning opportunities. The Learning Areas for the Australian Curriculum currently include: English, Mathematics, Science and History. General capabilities, a key dimension of the Australian Curriculum, are addressed explicitly in the content of the learning areas. They play a significant role in realising the goals set out in the Melbourne Declaration on Educational Goals for Young Australians (MCEETYA 2008) - that all young people in Australia should be supported to become successful learners, confident and creative individuals, and active and informed citizens. The Australian Curriculum includes seven general capabilities: Literacy Numeracy Information and communication technology (ICT) capability Critical and creative thinking Personal and social capability Ethical understanding Intercultural understanding. http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/File/C26D8605-FAA2-4B40-BE10-A15500EE1EB6. Accordingly, the Australian Curriculum must be both relevant to the lives of students and address the contempor

This is a bit of a perpetual cycle. Technology itself doesn't guarantee an education revolution but it certainly is the driving force for needing one. 

Series of 18 short videos providing insights into the land management practices and social, spiritual and cultural knowledge of the Ngemba, Kamilaroi and Euahlayi Aboriginal language groups in north-western NSW. The videos are presented by the Aboriginal Elders and knowledge-holders and cover a range of topics including the cultural use of billabongs and gilgai, the use of native foods and medicines and traditional stories from the region. Some of the videos explore the European water management practices on the ecology of the catchment and the importance of sustainable land and water management.

Cool burning, students investigate the way the Indigenous land managers manage controlled burns e.o. relevant facts about the way people manage placed to mitigate and control fire hazards

Who We Are We are educators. We offer teachers, administrators, and parents a comprehensive array of consulting services designed to build and sustain leadership institutions in the 21st century. How Girls Thrive Buy your copy now!

Tony Ryan discusses the need for schools to have transformational teachers, focusing on who we are as being more important than what we teach. He outlines four roles of a transformational teacher, 'Energiser', 'Connector', 'Entrepreneur' and 'Sustainer'.

Great resource/video Rachael, what an astounding list of facts relating to ICT and it also provides a great picture of IT evolution and strongly emphasis if you do not get on this train you will certainly be left at the station. :-)

Social media video to encourage to be in the moment

"Predictions are that by 2049 a $1000 computer will exceed the computational capabilities of the entire human species" - What does this mean for our future? That is seriously hard to comprehend. Is technology growth really that sustainable?